win/win for the Foyts????

[oldtimer]

I agree that Larry is every bit as talented as IV. But both of them together, standing on each other's shoulders, wouldnt reach AJ's knees. If AJ wants a winner, he'd better go outside the family.

I've always loved AJ, always supported him. He and Indy have always gone together. I want him to stay in Indy racing, but he has never had a real competitor inside the family, and he never will. Only the name remains; the talent is long gone. Hornish in a Foyt Toyota will beat IV in an Andretti Honda nine times out of ten. It's not just the engine.

[Coyote]

I haven't read the other threads on this so maybe I don't 'get it'.

But AJ IV's comment would seem to me to be the gist of it. The young man needs to get in a car that can win and he knows it. Grandad's Indycar team is still a mess. It isn't the engines. They are almost always the slowest Toyota by quite a bit. Quattro either can't set up an Indycar or he and grandad can't cummunicate. AJ IV would surely learn from Evernham or at least Evernham thinks he can. I was beginning to wonder if Quattro just wasn't bright enough to learn the setup stuff but I think Evernham hires well, so he sees something.

My own guess would be that AJ would either run Larry for the full season or else hire the best shoe he can get, and some good ones with experience would still try the Foyt ride I believe. I also think Larry is currently better at setting up a car then Quattro. It just has looked to me like AJ has run Larry with more downforce at Indy to try to have one car supposed to run to the end and just pick up some cash although that has not worked either. But when both Larry and Foyt IV crash every year at Indy I don't think it's the drivers because Larry is usually more conservative then that yet he still stuffs it.

AJ need a couple good engineers and driver who can understand what the heck he (AJ) is telling them. AJ also needs engineers that he will listen too and that's the rub.